Saudis' Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider  —  Each morning, Jamal Khashoggi would check his phone to discover what fresh hell had been unleashed while he was sleeping.  —  He would see the work of an army of Twitter trolls, ordered to attack him and other influential Saudis who had criticized the kingdom's leaders.

Senator Mitch McConnell Confronted at Restaurant by Angry Customers  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, was confronted Friday night by some angry diners who loudly berated him for his politics.  —  The Kentucky Senator was eating dinner with his wife at Havana Rumba in Louisville, when 4 men confronted Mitch.

President campaigns for former foe at Nevada rally  —  ELKO, Nev. — Before Donald Trump's improbable victory nearly two years ago, Dean Heller, this state's Republican senator, told reporters that “I vehemently oppose” the GOP's presidential nominee and returned a donation Trump made to his campaign.

Sanders hints at reckoning with Warren over 2020 ambitions  —  The two progressive icons are on a collision course.  —  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bernie Sanders says he speaks with Elizabeth Warren nearly every day — just not about 2020.  —  But with the two progressive behemoths on a collision course …

Missouri GOP sent 10,000 voters false absentee voting information  —  The Missouri Republican Party sent mailers to 10,000 voters across the state with false information about when their absentee ballots are due, the party's executive director acknowledged Friday.

G.O.P. Candidates Struggling in Key Battlegrounds, With House at Stake  —  ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Republican leaders are increasingly worried that their candidates for governor and Senate are in political trouble across Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and other states that the party prizes …

Early voting hints at huge turnout  —  More than 4.3 million Americans have already cast their ballots in the midterm elections, and early signs point to a huge increase in turnout from the last midterm elections in 2014, when overall voter participation hit a 70-year low.

Convicted Ex-Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos Fights to Become the Next Big Fox News Star  —  Asked if aides and those close to Trump see Papadopoulos as an ongoing liability, one White House official replied that they see him generally as a ‘clown trying to make a buck.’

Georgia's ‘exact match’ law could disenfranchise 909,540 eligible voters, my research finds  —  Recently, there's been an uproar about Georgia's approach to voter registration.  The state's “exact match” law, passed last year, requires that citizens' names on their government-issued IDs must precisely match …

Rep. Steve King Goes Full White Nationalist In Interview With Austrian Site  —  A shocking interview with a far-right propaganda site offers the clearest look yet at the congressman's racist ideology.  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) visited Austria in August and gave an extensive interview …

EXCLUSIVE: Mar-a-Lago member Lana Marks headed to South Africa post?  —  President Donald Trump is said to be ready to nominate couture handbag designer and Palm Beach resident Lana Marks to become ambassador to South Africa, making her the fourth member of the Mar-a-Lago Club that the president has tapped for an ambassadorship.

Analysis: Brian Kemp has purged over 300,000 voters from Georgia rolls  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is accused of seeking to suppress the black vote ahead of his big election  —  Georgia has removed over 300,000 voters from the state's voter rolls over the past two years …

Senate and House GOP super PACs post big sums in September, new filings show  —  Republican super PACs aligned with leadership in the House and Senate raised an enormous sum of $63 million in September, as the groups stepped up their fundraising and spending efforts in the final two months …

Anthony Scaramucci spills about Trump in tell-all book … It was less than six months before the 2016 election and Donald Trump was aboard his private jet, en route to a campaign rally in Albuquerque, NM — but politics were the farthest thing on his mind.  —  In front of him on a table …